The Créteil Women's Festival puts the spotlight on women filmmakers until Sunday April 11.
An event made necessary, according to its director, by the difficulties encountered by the filmmakers to impose themselves in this environment of men.
The directors are in the spotlight.
Until April 11, the Créteil Women's Festival puts the spotlight on filmmakers.
But, coronavirus requires, the event can be followed online.
Around twenty films, documentaries and short films are thus presented, all directed by women of all nationalities.
A 43rd edition still necessary according to the director of the festival, Jackie Buet.
Because if the directors are more and more known and recognized, things "move very slowly", she indicates at the microphone of Europe 1.
"We show that they are numerous and that they make great films"
For that to change, it is therefore necessary "moments of acceleration in the year", assures the director.
"By bringing together women directors on a set, we show that there are many of them and that they make great films. Sometimes, I notice that we are interested in women directors who make a first film, but me, this what interests me is that they make a second, a third and that they make a career. "
A glass ceiling towards women that Aïssa Maïga knows well.
The actress, and now a director, is also the festival's guest of honor for her film
Regard Noir.
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This film was born from this observation that I made very bitterly in my beginnings: as a non-white woman in this extremely difficult sector, we are confined to a certain type of role, as if it were not possible to 'to be French and black,' she explains in a video available to festival-goers.
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"Some directors manage to free themselves from these questions"
A thought that she developed at the microphone of Europe 1, Sunday morning.
"France is very mixed and it is the country of human rights, but at the same time it must have been difficult to translate on the screens in a serene way. Basically either we see very few Arab, black actors , mixed race or Asians, or they are over-represented in roles with negative characters ".
But Aïssa Maïga notes all the same that things are progressing a little, since "certain directors, like Cédric Klapisch, manage to emancipate themselves from these questions".
In the United States, the country of cinema with its very powerful and influential Hollywood, the same problem arises.
With hope, however, since 16% of the most profitable films were directed by women.
A record.